Now, i installed 5.9 on my Compaq Evo N630c and everything works perfectly. The thing is that it's a little bit slower than 5.8. For instance, if i'm surfing the internet with Firefox and i'm saving a file there is always like a 2 second freeze. Or if i am using VASM it will also take some time to browse through it.

Any suggestions?

By the way, i really loved it when i could choose the window manager in 5.1 ( i loved IceWM ). I never really understood the move to XFCE.

Thanks.

Gus

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For instance, if i'm surfing the internet with Firefox and i'm saving a file there is always like a 2 second freeze. Or if i am using VASM it will also take some time to browse through it. Any suggestions?

You probably should anaylze the output from the following commands, done while you are experiencing the slowness -top : do you have any errant processes using 100% CPU ?free: show us what your RAM usage is df: show is how full your mounted disk drives are

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By the way, i really loved it when i could choose the window manager in 5.1 ( i loved IceWM ). I never really understood the move to XFCE.

5.9 is provided with fluxbox and jwm as alternate managers, just choose them in the login screen. If you want IceWM I think it is in our repositories. The use of xfce is probably because it is a much easier environment for newbies to deal with than IceWM or fluxbox, and is still highly customizable by geeks. Thanks.

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i don't know it's a vl 5.9 problem,i' ve the same problem with firefoxon every recent distro i've tried

I'm not having that problem with firefox. What sort of system do you have? - look at the output of the commands I suggested above, launch firefox from a terminal and see if there are any errors, look at your ~/.xsession-errors file and see if you are getting any errors there.

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i don't know it's a vl 5.9 problem,i' ve the same problem with firefoxon every recent distro i've tried

I'm not having that problem with firefox. What sort of system do you have? - look at the output of the commands I suggested above, launch firefox from a terminal and see if there are any errors, look at your ~/.xsession-errors file and see if you are getting any errors there.

It's probably Firefox's (and indeed, seemingly all other Gecko browsers') massive bloatedness. The standard semi-fix for that problem with the current crop of Gecko browsers is to enter about:config in the address bar and set browser.cache.memory.enable to false then browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0. However, even that is of limited effectiveness on Firefox and Seamonkey.

This may not be relevant, but I HAVE noticed reduced responsiveness in the browser when using Firefox (as root, through help/upgrade menu option) to upgrade to the latest version. I've been able to resolve the sluggishness but simply upgrading via gslapt; that is now the only way I'll upgrade firefox. FWIW.

VASMCC is not as slow as when i first installed Vector. . . ( ? ). And i'll try the other window managers when i reboot my computer, thanks for pointing that out. And thanks hanumizzle.

Has it happened to anybody that when Firefox comes upon a file whose type it doesn't recognize and you have to set the file associations. . . doesn't it take forever for the dialog box to display the contents of /usr/bin/ /usr/X11/bin/ and /usr/X11R6/bin/?

Gus

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Has it happened to anybody that when Firefox comes upon a file whose type it doesn't recognize and you have to set the file associations. . . doesn't it take forever for the dialog box to display the contents of /usr/bin/ /usr/X11/bin/ and /usr/X11R6/bin/?

hanumizzle: Your suggestions made no difference, but thanks for your help.

lagagnon: .xsession-errors shows no errors in Firefox, as far as i can see. I was trying FluxBox, but. . . how do i mount? In Xfce if i want to mount as a user i just modify fstab ( with root ) and mount from the utility in the system tray, but how do i do it in FluxBox?

Thanks.

Gus

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I was trying FluxBox, but. . . how do i mount? In Xfce if i want to mount as a user i just modify fstab ( with root ) and mount from the utility in the system tray, but how do i do it in FluxBox?

Fluxbox does not have that mount widget that xfce does. Consequently, you either have to set /etc/fstab to auto mount the drive at bootup or make sure HAL or vl-hot are running for detachable devices to be recognized. Either that or you have to mount by hand in a terminal, e.g.:

#mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/tmp

What exactly do you want to mount?

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This thread bothers me. I run Vector 5.8 standard on my Omnibook 900b 650 mhz with 256 ram. I use it about 8 hours a day. It is rock solid. I took (according to lagagnon) a sledgehammer to it a couple of months ago and broke the "file open" gadget in Thunar, so I now open files mostly in xfe. I have all the programs loaded for my business and all of them work perfectly. Seamonkey is fast. I have only Vector on my machine (no dual boot) and three partitions [swap (hda1), boot (hda2) and home(hda3)]. Boot has the programs and Home the data.

As I write, I am downloading Vector 5.9 (BitTorrent). No earthly reason why, if you come right down to it, except perhaps, it might be better (hope springs eternal) - and I would probably get a fully functioning Thunar again, which I don't much care about. And I would be using the operating system our club is now giving out to underprivileged kids, so would better be able to explain it to them.

Anyway, I have loaded Vector 5.8 standard on a machine I don't much like (HP Compaq NC6000), with three identical partitions. My plan is to load 5.9 on the NC6000 to make sure I can do it without destroying data on the Home partition and, if so, to then load 5.9 on my Omnbook..

Now, I read that 5.9 might be slower than 5.8.

As I said, this bothers me.

1) Does anyone know if it is likely that 5.9 will run slower on my Omnibook?2) Will I be able to still get my wonderful but perhaps weird programs (particularly lyx) off of gslapt?